they yield to hot water. Their decoction is therefore useful as a fomentation to painful parts. The seeds have a distinct control over gonorrhœa, gleet, and chronic cystitis (Moodeen Sheriff),
The juice of leaves about one tola, and ghee one tola, are given in catarrhal bilious diarrhœa. K.R.K.
156. A graveolens, W. & A., h.f.b.l, i 327.
Vern. : — Barkanghi, bara banghi (Cawnpore). Vaddâttutti. (Tam.)
Habitat : — United Provinces, Sindh, Nilgherries, Baluchistan, Central Provinces, Ceylon waste ground.
An herbaceous annual, branches covered with clammy pubescence, mixed with spreading hairs. Leaves sometimes lobed, orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, velvety on both sides. Petiole almost as long as the blade ; stipules linear ; reflexed (falcate). Peduncles as long as the petioles. Trimen says that the flowers in Ceylon are yellowish, becoming pink when withering. Flowers large, orange coloured, with a darker centre, ultimately reflexed. Sepals ovate, acuminate ; petals obcordate. Carpels 20 or more, truncate or rounded, hairy ; rather longer than the Calyx, not awned.
Use : — In his Flora of the Upper Gangetic plain (p. 83), Duthie writes that the roots, leaves and seeds are medicinal. The fresh plant has often a strong and unpleasant smell. Trimen says about the same plant growing in Ceylon:— "I do not notice any scent in the Ceylon plant." The uses are the same as those of A. indicum.
157. A. Avieennce, Gcertn., h.f.b.l, i 327.
Syn. : - Sida abutilon, Linn. (Sanskrit) Jayâ, Jayanti — J. Indraji.
Eng, : — The Indian Mallow or American Jute.
Vern. : — (Gujrat and Porebunder) Nâhani Khapât, Bhonya Kâski, Bhonya-Khapât.
Habitat : — North-west India, Sindh, Kashmir and Bengal.
